P4 voltage question

I've been told that highest processor upgrade I can get for my 1.6 Compaq is
2.0,although every diagnostic program I've run on it says it will support
2.3 or better.I've heard from a couple of other users with the same system
who say they've used a 2.4 successfully,others have said it won't work
because the Williamnette P4 used in my system have a higher core
voltage(1.75) than any P4's made over 2.0(1.5).Who's telling the truth?

On Sun, 25 Jan 2004 23:13:41 GMT, "Mike" wrote:

I've been told that highest processor upgrade I can get for my 1.6 Compaq is
2.0,although every diagnostic program I've run on it says it will support
2.3 or better.I've heard from a couple of other users with the same system
who say they've used a 2.4 successfully,others have said it won't work
because the Williamnette P4 used in my system have a higher core
voltage(1.75) than any P4's made over 2.0(1.5).Who's telling the truth?


I sugest you rely on those who report actually doing it successfully
on "same" system, not those who theorize about why it wouldn't work,
having never tried it.

Voltage isn't an issue, most (if not all) modern systems have
programmable voltage controller that support a pretty wide range of
voltage, usually at least down to 1.3V. The bigger issue is the
system bios, you might want to find what bios version was used by
those having success. Since your CPU uses 100MHz (400MHz in
Intelspeak) you're probably limited to the fastest CPU using that FSB,
which, IIRC, is 2.4GHz. I'm assuming your motherboard/CPU are socket
478, not 423.